I guess I have an opinion but no experience with actual flying. I got interested in RC this past year or so and decided to buy a Simulator to find out if I could actually fly it because of some medical problems that caused me to loose a little of my coordination. I found out that I can do it quite well so now I'll concentrate on flying the sim over the winter months then buy a plane and start the real thing. I decided that the G4.5 would be worth the money if it worked as advertised. One of the reasons for buying the G4.5 was that Dell told me it would work with my PC. I've watched a lot of RC airshows during this past year and the sim is quite realistic. I've learned a lot about flying with it, getting more comfortable with it all the time. I started with the NextStar then started flying the T-28 most of the time. This includes landings, loops, rolls and spin recoveries. I know for a fact that it resembles full scale flying. The G4.5 is all that I wanted from a sim.